Competition between two or more nations, factions, or groups in which each participant strives to produce the most technologically advanced and destructive weapon.

A polite term for shoving a lubricated probe into the Earth's hole to release gas.

two (or more) countries who try to outdo each other in developing the most sophisticated and or powerful weapons, typically as matter of national pride.
related words: wordspace race/word, wordpatriotism/word

Starting a beef with someone when you have damaging information on them. Especially when you have the upper hand.

competition existing between nations of great militaristic power to build the best weapons for protecting themselves (although the nations themselves won't admit this).

a form of cold war whereby two or more countries compete to gain an advantage in conventional and/or nuclear weapons, causing a spiraling upward of the destructiveness and number of these weapons held by each side

the competition between nations to develop weapons of warfare. it is now being taken once again into outer space; some countries ,do not recognize the idea of mutually assured destruction